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Definition of tauromachy in English: tauromachynounPlural tauromachies tɔːˈrɒməkitɔˈrɑməki mass nounrare 1Bullfighting. Example sentencesExamples - Thanks to Tilo for sending me a link to a paper on the ancient Tamil tradition of tauromachy, bull-baiting.
- It discusses the culture of Spain from 1700 to the present: painting, sculpture, architecture, tauromachy, manners, and customs.
- According to Saumade, so smitten with the sport he's written a book on it, Spanish tauromachy reflects its aristocratic inventors, man asserting superiority over the untamed ‘savage’.
- But the enduring appeal of tauromachy is elsewhere: it is in the tragedy, in the Greek meaning of the word, which is re-enacted in front of us.
- The Seville slaughterhouse was the first official school of tauromachy in Spain.
- 1.1count noun A bullfight.
Example sentencesExamples - He is a bull slowly wrestled down in some terrible tauromachy.
- There are more than 80 paintings, pastels and drawings created during the past five years: still-lifes, and brothel and tauromachy scenes.
- At some of the towns where St. Sernin is said to have founded churches, such as Eauze and Pamplona, the tauromachy exists today.
Derivatives adjective rare I admired the tauromachian flourish with which, at the end of a haircut, they removed the white bib they had placed around their customers' necks. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of Aficionado is its almost massive minutiae about everything tauromachian.
- The tauromachian symbols are obvious and persistent, but along with them comes a range of other images drawn from folk memories and recollections.
- Braque, unlike Picasso, was not a bullfight enthusiast, and he probably included these tauromachian allusions - the only ones in his oeuvre - as a tribute to his friend.
- Nîmes's colossal cultural heritage - historical, tauromachian and artistic - has resulted in the founding of several museums.
adjective rare She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Example sentencesExamples - Mr. Hemingway had, I think, been a cowboy before he became a tauromachic expert.
- The ‘pega’ is an exclusively Portuguese cultural and tauromachic phenomenon.
- They attract as well for their architecture for the spectacles tauromachic.
- It cannot be captured by the cool accounts of the attendant aficionados who pride themselves on their knowledge of the tauromachic craft.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek tauromakhia, from tauros 'bull' + makhē 'battle'. Definition of tauromachy in US English: tauromachynountɔˈrɑməkitôˈräməkē rare 1Bullfighting. Example sentencesExamples - Thanks to Tilo for sending me a link to a paper on the ancient Tamil tradition of tauromachy, bull-baiting.
- The Seville slaughterhouse was the first official school of tauromachy in Spain.
- It discusses the culture of Spain from 1700 to the present: painting, sculpture, architecture, tauromachy, manners, and customs.
- But the enduring appeal of tauromachy is elsewhere: it is in the tragedy, in the Greek meaning of the word, which is re-enacted in front of us.
- According to Saumade, so smitten with the sport he's written a book on it, Spanish tauromachy reflects its aristocratic inventors, man asserting superiority over the untamed ‘savage’.
- 1.1 A bullfight.
Example sentencesExamples - He is a bull slowly wrestled down in some terrible tauromachy.
- At some of the towns where St. Sernin is said to have founded churches, such as Eauze and Pamplona, the tauromachy exists today.
- There are more than 80 paintings, pastels and drawings created during the past five years: still-lifes, and brothel and tauromachy scenes.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek tauromakhia, from tauros ‘bull’ + makhē ‘battle’. |